On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold <xenophage@godshell.com> wrote:
On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:50 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: ...However, I was under the impression that having both forward and reverse for >dynamic IPs was a best practice..
Perhaps we should back up a bit and delete 'how' from the subject line of this thread, and first ask 'Will it be done?' and where will RDNS be implemented? It is best practice within IPv4 networks. The IPv6 internet is a new network, and prevalent practices will not necessarily turn out to be what we consider best from V4. 'Best practice' is going to have to meet with administrative necessity in some form at some point. A reality may be that not all hosts necessarily have a meaningful hostname that they should be addressed by, or that the 'operator' (web browser user) wants to be known; Useful RDNS records may become more confined to hosts that actually provide a globally accessible service. Residential subscribers of ISP you-are-not-allowed-to-run-a-server level of DSL/Cable service will likely not have their own domain name, providing RDNS delegation would be mostly a waste of resources. Providing DDNS updates to RDNS is likely to be abused in various ways, even if it can be secured (malware would love this -- instant fully RDNS-cognizant mail server). The prevalent practice is almost certainly going to be for res. ISPs to provide a NXDOMAIN response to RDNS queries, or a generic response like is common with V4. Probably "custom RDNS" would be considered a business service, and like all business services, have its own pricing schedule, and involve subscriber providing IP addresses of DNS servers to delegate to. If Res. subscribers are lucky the big ISPs might provide a proprietary app to run on their PC to magically register it with RDNS, and enable for connectivity. With the downside that there can now be an enforced per-PC surcharge. Consumer DSL providers would probably love this.... $60/month, connectivity for one PC to the internet at X/speed included..... . $1/day extra for each additional PC registered with the DNS, $0.10/hour for each Xbox/gaming console/HTPC/Media streaming device registered for internet access. *zip bang voom* 4 years later... IPv6 NAT, the prevalent technology present in every $50 IPv6 router, an unofficial hack that might some day get an RFC made about it.... -- -J